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Discord Publisher Authentication Technical Spec

Motivation

The Discord Social SDK requires a Discord application configured for your game. Users grant this application permission to access their Discord data. The SDK then uses OAuth2 access tokens, obtained through this user authorization, to interact with Discord on the user's behalf.

Applications used for the SDK in this way map 1:1 with games. The title and art for the application is that of the game, and a lot of UX in the Discord app and SDK reflects this.

This means that publishers with many games require users to authorize potentially many times - one for each game they have integrated. This is cumbersome for both publisher and user, and we solve it with publisher authentication.

Recording by @Wolfhound905

User Survey

Sets context for API and App updates
Survey was sent out to bot users
60% of respondents have used Slash Commands; this went up over time
50% of users say the main reason they like Slash Commands is Discoverability
- Incl. features such as Autocomplete and Message Components
Top two features users struggle with

How to push tagged Docker releases to Google Artifact Registry with a GitHub Action

Here's how I configured a GitHub Action so that a new version issued by GitHub's release interface will build a Dockerfile, tag it with the version number and upload it to Google Artifact Registry.

Before you attempt the steps below, you need the following:

A GitHub repository that contains a working Dockerfile
The Google Cloud SDK tool gcloud installed and authenticated

Create a Workload Identity Federation

Brew Bundle Brewfile Tips

Copyright & License

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Adding line item properties for personalization to your Shopify site

For some products in your store, you may want to capture other form-like information from the customer such as custom monogram/engraving text or a choice of colour in which inventory doesn't need to be kept. These fields are called line item properties and can be used to allow customers to make choices or add information about a product.

This post will take you through how to add line item properties to a new product page template, as well as how to make the names of these new properties customizable by adding them as Theme Settings. By the end of this post, you will have a product page with custom required inputs for colour and an optional monogram that will look something like this:

Creating an alternate product page template

Handroll JWT Authentication for your Rails API because no on likes using Devise

The Problem:

If you’re new to building API’s with Rails you’ve probably wondered how to authenticate requests made to the API to ensure that they are coming from the correct source with correct permissions. Since API’s are stateless applications they do not have the ability to create sessions for users. (Read about how Rails Sessions work here) This creates some challenges when trying to handle authentication because the app isn’t able to remember a user’s session data from one request to the next.

The Solution:

Enter Json Web Tokens. Json Web Tokens (JWT) are a self contained authentication method designed for stateless authentication. A self contained authentication method is one that does not require any storage on the back-end to verify the authenticity of the request. All of the data necessary to authenticate the request is contained right inside the token!

What does a JWT look like?

This guide is unmaintained and was created for a specific workshop in 2017. It remains as a legacy reference. Use at your own risk.

Running your own encrypted chat service with Matrix and Riot

Workshop Instructor:

Lilly Ryan @attacus_au

This workshop is distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

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